Like what you heard? Try Windows Azure for FREE and enjoy the freedom to use your preferred OS, language, database or tool. Windows Azure can help you deploy sites to a highly scalable environment, deploy and run virtual machines, and create highly scalable application in a rich PaaS environment. Give it a try! Blain Barton…

Like what you heard? Try Windows Azure for FREE and enjoy the freedom to use your preferred OS, language, database or tool. Windows Azure can help you deploy sites to a highly scalable environment, deploy and run virtual machines, and create highly scalable application in a rich PaaS environment. Give it a try! Blain Barton…

Here are my latest notes for boot to .VHD without messing up your bare metal. This process can be used for Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8. Here’s what you need to have in your IT Toolbox for this exercise. - USB Drive (4GB or larger) - .ISO File of Windows Server 2012 RTM…

Some of my IT Pro contacts have noticed an error activating Window 8 Enterprise RTM Edition with the product key from the Microsoft TechNet Website. Seems to be a KMS issue and I’m seeing it with the download subscriptions. Instead of taking the emails one-by-one, I’m posting this to my blog, hope this helps. Error…

Today I set up 3 servers and I notice there were a few things that I like to have in my environment. To start off, I use laptops for my demos in my events and I use wireless, which is not best practice for the server environment for obvious security reasons. However, today I wanted…

Alan Le Marquand, the “Dean of Students” for the Microsoft Virtual Academy is back for this month’s MVA update. In this episode we discuss new System Center 2012 courses covering Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Service Manager, Advisor, Licensing and Pricing as well as a deeper dive into Windows Server 2012. Click here to sign up for…

In this final installment of our Office management series, Sr. Product Manager Jeremy Chapman explains how you can configure remote access for your tablet devices using Citrix XenApp. Tune in as he covers what requirements are needed, how it integrates with active directory, single sign-on, group policy and security controls as well as how this…

The Microsoft Virtual Academy “Dean” of students Alan Le Marquand is back for today’s show as he discusses the upcoming release of the Windows Server 8, SQL Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Operations Manager courses. Tune in as he gives us a preview of what we can expect for each as well as courses…